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csixty4 on June 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illeg...

Their product used to be a box that encoded video off cable and sent it to your devices over the network. But now they have their own streaming service that carries cable TV content.

intsunny on June 13, 2019 [–]

Slingbox and Sling TV have no relation: http://support.slingbox.com/en-US/KB/KB-8024.aspx

vageli on June 13, 2019 | [–]

Ah wow, yeah I had thought sling _was_ slingbox.

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